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That is, the rest is history.com. Madame, my ears have been so deafened and my understanding so grieved and my heart so affrighted.

To hear the dreadful news of the abominable murder of your mad husband and my

slain cousin, oh, that I scarcely have the wits to write about it. I cannot dissembled that I

am more sorrowful for you than for him. Oh, madame, I would not do the office of faithful cousin

or affectionate friend if I studied rather to please your

ears than employed myself in preserving your honour. I will not at all dissemble what most people

are talking about, which is that you will look through your fingers at the revenging of this

deed, and that you do not take measures that touch those who have done as you wished,

as if the thing had been entrusted in a way that the murderers felt assurance in doing it.

I exhort you, I counsel you, and I beseech you, to take this thing so much to heart

that you will not fear to touch even him whom you have nearest to you if the thing

touches him, and that no persuasion will prevent you from making an example out of this to the

world, that you are both a noble princess and a loyal wife.

Praying the Creator to give you the grace to recognise this traitor and protect

yourself from him as from the ministers of Satan, with my very heartfelt recommendations to

you, very dear sister.

So that is a letter, Tom, written by Elizabeth I.

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